they should scare
11th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, horror, writing, writing for children, storytelling |
"In order for stories to work—for kids and for adults—they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary."
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